i picked the gun up for $20.00. if you look past the aweful grips and badly done nickel plate finish (both of wich are being fixed the right way, proffesional) the gun is pristine. no pitting, or rust, or marring. the bore is perfect, with virgin rifling, lands and grooves. the muzzle crown is perfect. i have had the gun apart (took some figuring and playing, let me tell you) and everythings intact and good.

i contacted TANFOGLIO with little luck. they say the company / partnership disolved in 1960, that less then 8,000 were made, and they have no other records or info available. thet state all documents were turned over to the police or destroyed.

its a solid design, its in good mechanical order, and soon will look good to.

anyone ever seen one??? anyone have one??? any info at all other than TRIPLE K CATALOG??? anything at all??? any ideas on value after the new grips and euopean mauser pistol blue finish are applied??? any intrest to collectors??? best regards, mike.BTTWhat other dungeon is so dark as ones own heart, what jailer so inexorable as ones own mind.

i picked this up in trade for work done at the shop. the guy who owned it was a dentist, and made several poor attepts to gold, silver, and nickel plate several handguns in his garage. at this point, realisticly, i have $0.00 invested in the gun.

the gun seems to be a close copy of the older series of WALTHER semiautomatic pistols. i know that TAFOGLIO has a poor rep today, and has produced some real dogs. this seems to be a decent gun of mid level quality. the design is interesting, and the takedown procedure that is assisted via the saftey lever is unusual. TRIPLE K has a picture, and a brief description. they mention the odd takedown method. i found one line mentions in 3 other books.

it costs me nothing ($0.00) to get a gun proffesionaly refinished. i do work for the guy and his company, mostly research and fact finding, wich he credits me with in labor trade.